Overview
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Legal AI Starter Lab
A free, no sign-up learning path for lawyers, librarians, students, and legal researchers who want to use AI tools more confidently.
This course helps legal professionals get started with Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity, then use them more confidently for source-grounded legal research workflows.
You can do a lot with AI assistants before connecting any legal research tools. As the lessons move into real legal research, we'll show when source-backed tools matter and how to check answers against citations, quotes, and source text.
Intro to Legal AI
Start at square zero: what AI assistants are, what to try first, and why legal work needs sources.
Know What You Can Put Into an AI Assistant
Use Claude, ChatGPT, or Perplexity without accidentally putting client or confidential information somewhere it does not belong.
Same Model, With and Without Legal Sources
See what changes when GPT-5.6 answers directly versus when the same assistant can use legal source data.
Connect and Test Descrybe Legal Engine
Make sure your assistant can actually use Descrybe before you ask it to do legal research.
Turn a Vague Research Need Into a Usable Prompt
Learn the difference between a question that invites a confident guess and a question that invites verifiable research.
Run Your First Research Roadmap
Use an assistant to create a research plan before it starts answering.
Find Cases Without Trusting the AI's Memory
Make the assistant search for authority and explain why each result matters.
Check a Citation or Quoted Sentence
Use AI for verification work without letting it silently invent the result.
Run the Legal AI Research Loop
Put the course together: prompt, roadmap, source-backed authority, follow-up questions, and verification.